Re: how to check how much data left to sync to disk at umount?

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Wed Sep 16 2015 - 21:51:28 EST


On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 01:29:33PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> When umount a slow device such as an SD card, the command will take a
> while to run depending on how much data is left to write to the
> device. Is there way to check how much data is remaining waiting to
> write to the device?

$ grep "Dirty\|Writeback" /proc/meminfo

And infer from that.

-Dave.
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